The Science Asylum

This is part 2 in a 3-video series on the physics of hockey... yes, hockey the sport. Emphasis in this video is on Newton's Second Law of Motion.

This is part 3 in a 3-video series on the physics of hockey... yes, hockey the sport. Emphasis in this video is on Newton's Third Law of Motion.

Yes, it has to do with Earth's tilt, but it's slightly more complicated than that. Mostly, it's about light intensity.

In Electromagnetism, they're always talking about fields... but what are they really? Standard textbook often misrepresent them, which may be part of the confusion.

Some of you were a little confused even after the last video on Entropy, so this should clear things up.

When it comes to rotation, things get really REALLY weird... so weird, in fact, that you experience things that play tricks on your perception. In this video, I demonstrate this by having fun on a merry-go-round.

A lot of people just don't get how science works, so they say things like "Well, it's just a theory." The word "theory" has a very different meaning among scientists and that's not even half the problem. The real problem is deeper.

Centrifugal force is not the only fictitious force to rear its ugly head in a rotating frame of reference. There's another one called the Coriolis force that affects moving things and it makes things even weirder.

The Amazon Rainforest is huge, so I couldn't hope to cover it in one video. This is just a list of some of the things AwkwardM got to see while she was in Ecuador's Rainforest.

The highlands of the Andes are a much different environment than the rainforest. The higher elevation makes the air dryer and cooler. As a result, there are completely different life forms there.

The Galapagos islands (off the coast of Ecuador) have some really cool organisms and a heck of a lot of history. Charles Darwin went there! It's partially responsible for the discovery of natural selection!

What made the Galapagos famous? Technically, the strange exciting organisms that lives there... but the data Charles Darwin collected there was vital to the discovery of natural selection and the start of evolutionary theory.

In 1905, Einstein came up with his famous equation showing a relationship between energy and mass... but what does it really mean? The answer might surprise you.

So most of us know that gravity comes from mass and that it's always attractive... but what the heck is the mechanism behind it?! This is the simplest I can make the answer without just being wrong.

I've been thinking a lot about quantum physics lately, so I thought I'd give you a list of the top 4 craziest concepts I've come across.

One of the major consequences of Einstein's special theory of relativity is that time is not absolute. The passage of time depends on the observer, so we all have our own clocks. It might seem weird, but if you stop to think about it, it's clear it can't be any other way.

The uncertainty principle was suggested by Werner Heisenberg in 1927. His version was only about position and momentum, but it's much broader than that. In fact, it happens anytime you model waves.

Thank you all so much for being part of this community. I look forward to future growth. You're all my fellow crazies.

Lightning is a static charge phenomenon that occurs all over the Earth. It's highly dangerous (sometimes deadly). I try to shed some light on where it comes from, how powerful it is, and how to possibly survive.

Light is the only thing we've observed to travel at the speed of light, though there are some theoretical particles that do the same... But why does it go so fast? and why can't everything go that fast? Watch to find out.

There's not much to say about pressure, but here's a quick definition and some facts. CRAZY QUICKY TIME!

Dark matter tends to be something which is misused a lot in sci-fi. It's mostly ordinary stuff, but that doesn't make it any less important.

Double-slit experiments have been around for over 200 years. They've been the standard for drawing the line between wave and particle. Unfortunately, since Feynman used it as a thought experiment on quantum physics in the 1960s, things got weird.